Superstar TV on Pipeline

Rajinikanth and his younger daughter Soundarya, a graphic designer, who runs an animation studio, Ochre, are reportedly planning to start a global television channel. The channel will be named "Superstar TV".Sources are quoted as saying that Soundarya has been keen on launching a TV channel in association with her father and working on it for quite some time now. She has overcome her father's initial resistance and he is said to have given the nod. She is preoccupied with her pet project, "The Sultan the Warrior", a 3D animation film on the superstar Soundarya has now gone abroad in connection with this project which she wants to complete at the earliest. Soundarya, according to reports, wants the proposed TV channel to be different from other Tamil channels which are mostly film-based and stereotyped. She wants "Superstar TV" to be a global channel like the National Geography.TV channels are mushrooming and most of the channels are in South India. The latest addition to the list is Kalaignar TV started by DMK chief and Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi. More channels are planned to be started in the coming months.

Super Star among Top 50 Indians:

America's leading business magazine Business Week has named Superstar Rajinikanth in their top 50 Indian personalities list. The magazine called the Superstar the "King of the South Indian Film Industry and the 'the deciding force of South Cinema'. Other names on the list were The Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel, former Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran, business leaders Ratan Tata and Mukesh Ambani, Bollywood iconAmithab Bachchan,Sharukh khan Actress Aishwarya roy, cricketers Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar and "movers and shakers" of modern contemporary India.